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To: Rambi who wrote (29880)	6/24/1999 11:19:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I'm sorry. Really. I didn't mean to call you a deep thinker. I know you're not. I understand you. Also, I hadn't read X's prosthesis. <<I was taking X's theory about being hardwired one way or the other from birth and wondering if you could be hardwired for belief, but not have the wires connected specifically, which left you with this sort of broad belief in "something". Whereas X says she finds herself unable to really believe in anything.>> I actually agree with this. I think. Very much. I believe people are preponderantly hard-wired. Or maybe completely. Seriously. It's a good way to cut people slack, too; to be courteous. And of course, to understand ourselves. If we try to do the opposite of what we admit we think, like stop believing in "god", we find, I find, it almost difficult. It might even require biologic change. In brain chemistry. I also think, from reading X for two years, she's extremely accurate in her self-assessment (thank, you, paulbo). She is at a biologic node of sorts. She's different, discernably. I don't mean that insultingly. I think she acts truly, transparently, and is valuable study because of the visibility of her qualities. (I have her in a little wheel cage on the desk here.) Her writings (thoughts?) are so consistent. I think we have certain advantages (and dis-advantages) and can "generally" act no other way. Oooh. But people can maybe also change their bio wiring and chemistry by asserted will. I think so. Unless brain chemicals don't exist in sufficient quantity. If I imagine a view, in operational, realistic depth ~ opposite something instinctively my own ~ I can feel an almost structural, chemical tension. I think sometimes, that this may be all that separates all peoples views. Brain and chemistry types. (Broadly.) With, of course, whatever layer of effect of experience and environment we want to think intertwine. God, I'm such a scientist! Yar! Plumbium. We may find, we are bio-mental mechanisms, to a complete, or more complete, degree. It's worth thinking about. Imagining. (Depression is also valuable here. As evolved chemicals drain out of the brain.) (It's a view from which, "where", none of this shit matters. Therefore, a profound parallax. Which is real?)